Fastening device for wearing apparel and the like



s. E JOHNSTON.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR WEARING APPAREL AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE14. 1921.

1 3425,4185 Patented Aug. 8, 1922.

UNITED STATES SAMUEL EVERETT JOHNSTON, 0F EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR WEkRING APPAREL AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug.8, 1 922.

Application flledIune 14, 1921. Serial No. 477,523.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL EVERETT JOHNSTON, a subject of the King ofGreat Britain, residing at 21 Castle Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, haveinvented a new and useful Improved Fastening Device for Wearing Appareland the like (for which I have filed applications in England April 19,1920, and October 4. 1920), of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fastening devices and particularly but notexclusively to those used for fastening articles of wearing apparel.Various devices have been used hitherto for this purpose such as hooksand eyes and press studs but these fastening devices have been subjectto certain disadvantages such as the tendency of hooks and eyes tobecome disengaged when the strain on the co-operating members becomesrelaxed. Furthermore press studs although free from this disadvantage.of hooks and eyes frequently tend to tear the material to which theyare sewn when being unfastened or become so weak as to come undone withthe least strain whilst the fact that the thread securing the members ofa press stud to a garment passes through punched out holes in the metalcauses this thread to becomeworn through very quickly.

It is the object of the present invention to obviate the disadvantagesabove referred to andprovide a fastening device in which the mutuallyengaging members are so constructed that they cannot become disengagedby relative movement or strain on the parts of a garment or the likewhich they are intended to secure together.

The fastening device constructed according to the present inventionconsists essentially in a retaining device and a stud adapted toco-operate therewith, the retaining de vice including a pair of springmembers normally separated by a distance less than the diameter of thestud shank whilst the construction of the retaining device is such thatthe stud is retained therein on being forced between the spring members.

Reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings in which Figure1 is a plan view of the retaining member of a fastening deviceconstructed in wire in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the device shown in Figure 1 and a studmember en gaging therewith.

Figure 3 is a plan view of a modified form of the retaining device.

Figure 4 is a plan view of a further modification.

Figure 5 is a plan of a blank from which a retaining device may be madein sheet metal and Figure 6 is a plan of the finished device in sheetmetal.

The drawings illustrate several forms of what is in effect the eyeportion of a .fa'stening device the place of the hook being taken by astud member having an enlarged head and provided with a suitable base toenable it to be attached conveniently tov a garment or the like. Thedevices shown are drawn to an enlarged scale for the sake of clearness.

The members illustrated in Figures 1 to 4 are all formed from springwire by bending, the essential feature of construction in each casebeing the members a and b which by the head 6 in the direction of theaxis of I the stud and by the normal position of the members a and b inthe direction at right angles to said axis. The device can only beunfastened by forcing the shank c intentionally between the members aand b. It is to be noted that the members a and I) should be curvedupwardly as shown in the elevation Figure 2, whereby they can springapart without movement of the inturned ends and to allow room for thehead 6 of the stud to move between them and the surface of the garment.

To enable the device illustrated to be secured to a garment or the likeloops 7 are formed between the transverse member d and the members a andb and by the inturned ends 9 of the latter. These loops which should liein the same plane serve for attachment to a garment or the like bysewing.

The modifications illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 differ in detail onlyfrom the form shown in Figiires 1 and. 2, the members (t and bfunctioning in the manner already described.

The device shown in Figure 6 is formed from a sheetmetal blank of theform shown in Figure 5 by bending the portions a and Z2. along thedotted lines towards the centre of the device whereby their curved edgesoccupy the same relative positions asthe members a and 7) in Figures 1to l. The portion (5' is then bent over portions (4 and l) as shown andthe device can be attached to a garment or the like by sewing utilizingthe perforations i which are punched in the blank before bending. Inbending the portion d into position additionalpressure is exerted on itsperforated ends in order-g that they may lie in the same plane as the:perf o rations atthe opposite end of the device. The metal usedinconstructing this form of the invention must be of a gauge and qualityto impart sufficient elasticity to the members a and b toenable them toresume their normal positions after the stud has been forced betweenthem. 1

It will be obvious that various constructional modifications other thanthose illustrated may bemade without departing from the essentialfeatures of the invention.

I claim a V i .1. In a fastening device, in combination, a stud member,a socket member, spring gripping members forming part. of said socketmember and havingnpwardly curved mutually approaching surfaces. atransverse member formed integral with said spring. members andextending transversely across the same and means for attaching saidsocket member to ,a garment by sewing. 2.. In a fastening device, incombination, a stud member, a socket member spring gripping membersforming part of said socket member and havingupwardly curved mutuallyapproaching surfaces. a transverse member formed integral withsaidspring members andextending transversely across the same and meansdisposed in a plane below saidspringnianters for attaching said socketmember toa garment by sewin r 3. Ina fastening device, in combination, astud member a socket member, spring gripping" members forming partof'said socket member and having upwardly curved mutually approachingsurfaces, a transverse member integral with said spring members andextendingtransverse'ly across the same and disposed at one end thereof,eyes formed at the ends of said transverse member and eyes formedintegral with said spring members at the end remote from said transversemember. 1, e v

n 4.1 In a fastening device, in combination, a stud member a socketmember, spring gripping membei's forming part of said socket member andhaving upwardly curved mutually approaching surfaces, a transversemember formed integral with said spring members and extendingtransversely across the same at one end thereof, eyes formed betweensaid transverse member, and said spring members in a plane below thelatter andv extensions of said spring members formingloops attheendsremote from said transverse member and converging towardsthe'latter in a plane beneath said spring members. v e a a 5.. Inafastening device, in combination, a stud member, a socketmember formedfrom one piece of metal, spring" gripping members forming part ofsaidsocket member and having upwardly curved mutually approaching surfaces,a transverse member integral with said spring members and extendingtransversely across the same and disposed at one end thereof, eyesformed at the ends of said transverse member and eyes formed integralwith said spring members at the end remote from said transverse memherall of said eyes being disposed in a plane beneath said spring members.v V

a In witness whereof I affix my signature.

by SAMUEL EVERETT onNsToN;

